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Education Giant Simha Lainer, 100

From establishing funds through the Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles to starting the Simha and Sara Lainer Fund for Jewish Education through the BJE of Greater Los Angeles to supporting Israel, Lainer and Sara were key supporters of the Jewish community.

Even Utopia Has a Price Tag

Late in the summer of 1987, my parents shipped me off to the Cleveland Jewish Community Center\’s cleverly named Camp Wise. It was August, the weather was hot, and the little village of wooden cabins with tent flaps for walls was a welcome change from the air-conditioned houses of the city.

The Circuit

Kadima Hebrew Academy honored its past and its future at an April gala celebrating the school\’s 35th anniversary.

Center Aids Iranians in Need of Help

After only a few months in Los Angeles, Shirley N., a 30-year-old Jewish immigrant from Iran, almost returned to her homeland because of financial difficulties.

With Camperships for All

They are not scholarships but \”camperships\” in Jewish summer camp parlance. Of the 1,000 campers expected soon at Malibu\’s Camp JCA Shalom, which is supported by JCCGLA, about 200 parents applied for camperships.

\”It\’s amazing, in the past few years, the income level of people who are requesting camperships,\” said Bill Kaplan, executive director of the Shalom Institute, which runs Camp JCA Shalom. Its campership aid this year will run about $130,000, $75,000 of which is general camp aid from The Federation. That is an increase from the $50,000 The Federation made available 2002, the boost due to the increase in cash-strapped families.

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